How many more Grenfells could there be?

That’s not enough—any building with that material on it should have it stripped off.

Yasmin from Camden, north London, came to Grenfell to volunteer to help survivors last Saturday. “The block of flats opposite my house is covered in exactly the same material,” she told Socialist Worker. “How many more are there?”

Michael Carlish, a construction project manager, organised the refurbishment of Charecroft Estate in Hammersmith and Fulham.

A similar material was used on window frames then, resulting in a fire.

“It’s not within the imagination of the people carrying out the risk assessments that the panel can come away and expose the flammable materials,” said Carlish.

New evidence shows the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation that managed Grenfell Tower did not report faults.

When he was minister for local government Eric Pickles asked local authorities to consider installing sprinklers in tower blocks. It should have been an order.

Many people who died in Grenfell would be alive for the sake of the cost of a new sprinkler system—£200,000.

One firefighter told Socialist Worker, “The strategy in a tower block is simple. The walls and the ceiling in each flat should contain the fire for 60 minutes. The scale of the loss of life at Grenfell was completely avoidable.